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[Hawkwind]

Touch has a lot of promise as does Awake. Will be interesting to see how they go.

 

[caLLous]

Awake is a bit too much of a headfuck but it's definitely interesting and worth watching.

 

[Appollo]

Touch has a lot of promise as does Awake. Will be interesting to see how they go.

1st episode of Touch was pretty good.

 

[caLLous]

Season 3 of Parenthood just finished, best season yet methinks.

Spoiler

The whole "Julia and Joel having a new 10 (or whatever) year old boy and not a baby" was a bit of a surprise but it should make for some interesting storylines next season (assuming the show gets renewed and I see no reason why it shouldn't); that family has always been a bit detached and stagnant (plot-wise) imo, maybe a new older brother for Sydney will work well.

I also find Adam's decision slightly unbelievable, especially because minutes earlier he was promising his daughter that Cornell wouldn't be a problem...

 

[caLLous]

Terra Nova cancelled, bit of a surprise tbh given who was involved with it. But it was a bit shit.

They will try to sell it to another network so it *might* live on.

 

[old.Tohtori]

It wasn't that bad compared to the other tribbledrip that's on

 

[soze]

Expensive Show to make though.

 

[Zarjazz]

Expensive Show to make though.

Fuck knows why. I've seen better dinosaur sfx on a PS2 ... in-game. Not a big loss, it was a really really shit show.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

South Park S16 starts Wednesday 14th March.

\o/

 

[Raven]

Not surprised by Terra Nova. It was very bad indeed. Crap acting, crap writing, crap sfx.

 

[caLLous]

Bob's Burgers back next week, Mad Men in a few weeks. The latter seems to have been away for AGES.

 

[soze]

Mad Men missed a season as one of them had a baby i think??

I have been watching The River it has first season cancellation written all over it. Some of the ideas are good but some of the acting is horrible and they seem to be changing paths to quickly.

 

[caLLous]

Mad Men missed a season as one of them had a baby i think??

Turns out it was a contract dispute with Matthew Weiner, the creator. His contract expired at the end of season 4, AMC wanted to put more commercial time in each ep (thus shortening it) and axe 2 characters and he wouldn't sign until they backed down. It meant they were running late and missed the peak season so they decided to put it back a year. Good for him, though. It's just right the way it is imo.

 

[soze]

Turns out it was a contract dispute with Matthew Weiner, the creator. His contract expired at the end of season 4, AMC wanted to put more commercial time in each ep (thus shortening it) and axe 2 characters and he wouldn't sign until they backed down. It meant they were running late and missed the peak season so they decided to put it back a year. Good for him, though. It's just right the way it is imo.

Ohh yes I remember that now the Show Runner of SOA was all over him as doing this shafted "Walking Deads" budget and a few others on that network.

 

[Cerb]

From what I've heard though the SOA showrunner is abit of an abrasive cunt at the best of times.

 

[soze]

Yeah he had his twitter taken away from him for not filtering his thoughts I think. His point stands though with less money to go around the big established show does not take its share of the hit but rather shafts the new show which was actually getting better numbers.

 

[caLLous]

Yeah all of this completely passed me by last year. One thing is for certain though, if they fuck around with Breaking Bad I am going to knock some heads together.

Over the last two weeks, AMC has pushed to make cuts on two of its other big shows -- "The Walking Dead" and "Breaking Bad" -- moves that came as a surprise to the creative forces behind those popular series.

...

Sony Television, the studio behind "Breaking Bad," was so irked at the terms AMC offered for a fifth season of the show, which included making only six or eight episodes instead of the usual 13, that last week it approached other cable networks, including FX, about buying the program. Cooler heads have since prevailed and AMC and Sony are trying to hammer out a new deal.

"Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck" indeed.

 

[soze]

S5 of Breaking bad will be the last. I don't know if greedy bollocks has anything to do with that or if it was planned but it has a 16ep final season coming up.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

It was announced some time ago that it would be 5 seasons IIRC, seems planned to keep the quality up and have a legitimate storyline that isn't tenuously dragged out for no reason (Hello Prison Break!)

 

[caLLous]

I know it's going to be 5 seasons but they better not skimp on any of the last eps, whether it's 1 long run or 2 shorter seasons. Breaking Bad > Mad Men but I guess the latter is the show with wider appeal and bigger returns.

 

[Raven]

Saw the pilot of Touch, brilliant.

 

[Appollo]

Alcatraz seems ok, watched ep1 last night.

 

[Cerb]

Meh.....too much of a procedural for me :/

 

[Roo Stercogburn]

I've watched the first 3 eps of Grimm. Not bad. Got potential. Bit Buffy-ish in many ways.

Best thing in it by far though is the chap that plays the Bludbod, Silas Weir Mitchell http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0593734/

 

[Zarjazz]

Alcatraz seems ok, watched ep1 last night.

Quit now, it's likely to be cancelled soon due to bad ratings and with good reason. The modern day stuff is an inferior procedural and the flash backs aren't interesting enough to hook the viewers. It's like they had an idea for the pilot but no idea how to make that a watchable series.

 

[caLLous]

Yup I must admit I've totally lost interest. I've gone back to playing catch-up with 30 Rock and Community, there really isn't much decent TV on at the moment.

 

[MYstIC G]

Yup I must admit I've totally lost interest. I've gone back to playing catch-up with 30 Rock and Community, there really isn't much decent TV on at the moment.

Really? I'm still loving Person of Interest.

 

[Aoami]

Watching s1 of community and i dont get the fuss... Seems safe and unoriginal. Parks & Recreation is where its at.

 

[caLLous]

Parks and Rec is fantastic; Ron Swanson is one of my favourite characters in any show ever.

As for Community, it's supposed to get better and then it's sort of inexplicably been half-cancelled halfway through s3. I like it, it is a bit safe but Troy and Abed (Abed in particular) are really good I think. Chevy Chase is also pretty bloody funny in it.

And Meg yeah there's a few shows that are doing ok; Person of Interest, Californication, House of Lies and Modern Family spring to mind. Most of the animated shows are failing hard (Bob's Burgers season 2 opener was decent though).

 

[caLLous]

Luck completely cancelled because another horse died.

Wounder, it was a great show. At least we get the rest of S1 but they were part-way through filming S2. It wasn't even during a scene, the horse was being led back to the stable and it reared up and fell backwards and hit it's head and was put down. But ofc animals dying isn't worth it for a TV show (or for the entertainment of crowds when the ground is too hard but that's another discussion).